Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs, which in humans and most other mammals is typically the one which has XXchromosomes; belonging to the sex which has larger gametes (for species which have two sexes and for which this distinction can be made).

The teacher's voice inflects the pulse of nêhiyawêwin as he teaches us. He says a prayer in the first class. Nouns, we learn, have a gender. In French, nouns are male or female, but in Cree, nouns are living or non-living, animate or inanimate.